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|image= The Key of Vaga title.jpg | |image= The Key of Vaga title.jpg | ||
|series=[[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | |series=[[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | ||
|doctor = Fifth Doctor | |||
|doctor=Fifth Doctor | |||
|companions= [[Adric]] | |companions= [[Adric]] | ||
|enemy = [[Pyron (species)|Pyrons]] | |enemy = [[Pyron (species)|Pyrons]] | ||
| | |setting = [[Vaga]], [[Magna]] system | ||
|writer= | |writer= | ||
| | |anthology = Doctor Who Annual 1982 | ||
|release date = August 1981 | |||
|prev=Just a Small Problem (short story) | |prev=Just a Small Problem (short story) | ||
|next=Planet of Fear (short story) | |next = Planet of Fear (short story) | ||
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'''''The Key of Vaga''''' was the fifth story in the [[Doctor Who Annual 1982]]. It was the first short story to feature the [[Fifth Doctor]]. It takes places in an unidentified gap when the Doctor travels only with Adric. It recognised that the Doctor | '''''The Key of Vaga''''' was the fifth story in the ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1982]]''. It was the first short story to feature the [[Fifth Doctor]]. It takes places in an unidentified gap when the Doctor travels only with Adric. It recognised that the Doctor can build inter-dimensional craft. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
The Planet Vaga faces its darkest hour. The only hope for its people lies with a boy called Adric and his friend, the Doctor... | The Planet Vaga faces its darkest hour. The only hope for its people lies with a boy called Adric and his friend, the Doctor... | ||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Fifth | * [[Fifth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Adric]] | * [[Adric]] | ||
* [[Valtar]] | * [[Valtar]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The [[modular transmission linkage]] is a TARDIS component that allows the Doctor to know when he's landed. | * The [[modular transmission linkage]] is a TARDIS component that allows the Doctor to know when he's landed. | ||
* The [[Pyron (species)|Pyrons]] destroyed [[Vaga]]'s larger sun when they fired a [[plinium missile]] into it. The [[Vagan]]s population was dead within one Vagan year. | * The [[Pyron (species)|Pyrons]] destroyed [[Vaga]]'s larger sun when they fired a [[plinium missile]] into it. The [[Vagan]]s population was dead within one Vagan year. | ||
* The Doctor helped design the [[Key of Vaga]]. | * The Doctor helped design the [[Key of Vaga]]. | ||
* Pyrons use a craft called a [[space-shark]]. It is equipped with both plinium and [[zargon missile]]s. | * Pyrons use a craft called a [[space-shark]]. It is equipped with both plinium and [[zargon missile]]s. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
''to | * The unidentified gap in which the [[Fifth Doctor]] travels only with [[Adric]] would appear to be at some point between ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' and ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'', bearing in mind the tight continuity between other stories in [[Season 19 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 19]], while [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] are presumably having a break from the TARDIS. | ||
* As the details of the Fifth Doctor's costume had not yet been made public at the time [[Doctor Who Annual 1982|the book in which this story appears]] was produced, illustrations of the Fifth Doctor accompanying this story are limited to an extreme cropped closeup of his face and an indistinct portrayal in shadow. As with all other illustrations of the Fifth Doctor in this book, his face and hairstyle are based on the appearance of [[Peter Davison]] from ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]].'' | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Adric short stories]] | ||
[[Category:DWAN 1982 short stories]] | |||
[[Category:DWAN short stories]] | |||